Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-11-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
AUTUMN WISDOM.

AUTUMN WISDOM.
When twittering swallows leave the caves,
And songsters leave the rural grove,
And harvested are all the sheaves,
Put up the stove.
When weather proph cts do begin
To prophesY with all their soul
winter mild and warm. put In
Ten tons of coal.
fourishiDg.
Calendars for 1888 are out. Just think
Of writing it with q down stroke and three
whiriigigs.
Christmas is &C ming. Read the siver-
tisements aad make up your mind what You
Nill get your friend for presents.
Any Of our clothing advertisers will sell
you something suitable for this weather at
fair price.
"A physician has discovered that the older
= man grows the smaller his brain becomes.
This explains why the young men know ev-
erything and old men know nothing.
That was a brilliant idea of a Washing.
ton, D. c., newspaper reporter who seat
Chief Justice Waite humbug internal ma.
chine. and then sold the startling news TO all
the papers.
AT meeting of the Council Of Bu'ler,
Tuesday evening it was resolved that Mr.:
Ketterer and Nrs. Gilkev be notified to build
brick walls between their houses and brick
fronts, or be subject to the fines imposed IN
the Ordinance.
s---Ifaii the election boards would hand
in cpep. correct, and complete returns to the
Prcibepotary. az they arc required by Law
TO do, our election table, this week, would be
complete end correct. As il is,rhe faulty re.
turns prevent our having a complete and
correct table.
A Paiiadelphia cnrouer's jury held an
inquest on the body Of young woman, a few
days ago, and brought in veidict that she
had died Of heart di.ease brought on by
tight lacing. Heart trouble but one Ct the
evils of tight iacing, there are many Others.
aud h1Ii the women of this nation seem TO be
inyalids from the same cause.
Ladies who take pride in good complex
ion sbcuid be careful how they come about it.
A young lady of Erie applied carbolic acid
to her face in mistake for g,yceriIe, and thus
d:sfgur=d herself. A Warren lady lost her
face instead of sugar of lead.
A new counterfeit silver dollar
has appeared in circulation. II is very we'll
executed, and the work anship shows that
the makers are not Dovices. The coin is q
little thicker than the genuine, is lighter in
weight, and the milling is rough and irreg.
uIar The rrg is fat while that Of the gen.
Uine is clear and metallic.
The third and fcurth-class postmasters Of
the United States, feeIin: that their salaries
ere irsdsouafc Ird smsrting under this in
justice. propose to seek redress OF their
grievances by assembling IN Dstiopal con-
ventiop IN Washington on December 18th
next, eId presenting petition tn Congress to
give them an increase of pay commensurate
with the labor imposed on them.
The terrible acc;den. at the Federal st.
crossing of the r. Il Ft. w. Il. r., in Allie
gheny last week, may b. the cause of an ele-
vated crossing being built there; and that is
what it will come n in the course of time al |
over the country. Ifihe railroads were al
ways built few feet below the surface level,
there would be M trouble in having all the
streets and roads pass over them,
AT the State Convention of the Retail
Merchant Protective Association, held at
Philadelphia, the Golden kuckstering case
from Mercer Co was discussed in its entirety
aud il wss dec cided thar the Sharon Associa-
ton should appeal frcm decision rendered TO
the Supreme Court. The State Association
will furnish the the legal talent and money
necessary to push the case to the higher
court.